Project Evaluation for Business and IT Alignment with Enterprise Architecture for Water Distribution Company

Abstract

Actually, there are gaps exist in the development of many large companies, which related to the automation and integration between the business and technology information systems within the company. Enterprise Architecture (EA) helps in aligning the business functions of a company with existing applications tooptimizethe existing business processes for the purpose of growth, revenue and satisfaction. For the creation of a well-integrated system, EAprovide logical design to build the sequence of connecting each function either in the structure, task and technology to achieve company goals. A well-designed information system (IS) architecture can be one of the best solutions to enhance the ability and capability of the company in serving its customers especially with the sustainability, maintainability, extendibility and maintainability. Furthermore, good information system can accommodate the company's needs to improve the company's performance process where the useful information system have been generated through careful planning and preparation. EA is a solution that can be used in designing systems within the company by integrating 4 (four) domains namely Business, Data, Applications, and Technology. This study provide the evaluation within the company that is expected to give preliminary result of process to be dealt with in order to increase the performance and support the business processes in the company.